May the fourth be with you!
TBS is running Star Wars movies all day.
May the fourth be with you!
TBS is running Star Wars movies all day.
I finally saw the most recent installment. The plot was: the empire has planet-destroying weapons that are ultimately overcome by much smaller rebel force...and the good guys and bad guys learn they are related somehow.....and lots of Jim Hennson's muppets for the kids.
In other words, its the same exact plot as all the other Star Wars movies.
I was one of those people that always said he liked the original ones ...and not the new ones. But the new ones are so bad now they've ruined the old ones for me too.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
I finally saw the most recent installment. The plot was: the empire has planet-destroying weapons that are ultimately overcome by much smaller rebel force...and the good guys and bad guys learn they are related somehow.....and lots of Jim Hennson's muppets for the kids.
In other words, its the same exact plot as all the other Star Wars movies.
I was one of those people that always said he liked the original ones ...and not the new ones. But the new ones are so bad now they've ruined the old ones for me too.
They always had simplistic plots, limited character development and at least twenty "why don't they just do this?" moments per movie.
Way back in 1977, I was watching the first movie. Our heroes have just escaped the Death Star. Leia correctly infers that they were allowed to escape and are being tracked in the hope of finding the rebel base. So what does she do?? She goes straight there, without making any attempt to disable the tracking device! Also...yes, she has vital data, but...it has to be physically delivered, in person??
Every one of those movies was like that--visually entertaining, mentally soporific. Great popcorn and beer movies. Ideal time-wasters, which makes them useful now.
I would pay to see a sequel made by the Coen brothers where Jar Jar Binks is fed into a wood chipper.
OK with maybe one sequel, if the same actors are in it. Rocky II, Lethal Weapon II, The Godfather II, and most of the Dirty Harry movies (not technically sequels?) are a few of the very few sequels that made the grade for me.
Granted, I didn't see but one Batman, the original. I never saw Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR.
Originally posted by: Candy Wright
OK with maybe one sequel, if the same actors are in it. Rocky II, Lethal Weapon II, The Godfather II, and most of the Dirty Harry movies (not technically sequels?) are a few of the very few sequels that made the grade for me.
Granted, I didn't see but one Batman, the original. I never saw Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR.
Alien 2 was considerably better than the first, and the first was pretty good.
Hamlet 2 was a hoot (I know, not really a sequel).
I always get the feeling that minimal creative effort is put into sequels--the producers are counting on the wave from the first movie to compensate for shortcomings.
